Editore: Fantagraphics Books, 2013
ISBN 10: 1606995790 ISBN 13: 9781606995792
Da: Read&Dream, SAINT LOUIS, MO, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good.
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Editore: Uncivilized Books, 2017
ISBN 10: 1941250122 ISBN 13: 9781941250129
Da: Zoom Books Company, Lynden, WA, U.S.A.
Condizione: good. Book is in good condition and may include underlining highlighting and minimal wear. The book can also include "From the library of" labels. May not contain miscellaneous items toys, dvds, etc. . We offer 100% money back guarantee and 24 7 customer service.
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Editore: Simon & Schuster, New York, 2006
Da: Vero Beach Books, Vero Beach, FL, U.S.A.
Prima edizione
Hardcover. Condizione: Fine. Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine. Cohen, Marc (jacket design); Sobel, David (author photograph) (illustratore). 1st Edition. Fine unread condition olive green boards with gold spine lettering contained in a fine condition non price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by A.J. Langguth; Author Dedication; Introduction: Union; Acknowledgments; Notes; Bibliography; Index; About the Author and Photo Credits. Illustrated with black-and-white drawings and a four page map frontispiece. Remainder mark at upper page edge (see photographs). "Never again after this masterly work will 1812 be a forgotten war. Langguth brilliantly restores the war to its rightful place in American history while at the same time giving us a rousing good story that holds our attention from beginning to end." -- Doris Kearns Goodwin, author. "A.J. Langguth is incapable of writing a dull sentence. Here he brings rousingly to life the perilous, fascinating years between America's first and second wars of independence. With an artist's flair, a scholar's rigor, and the narrative genius of a born storyteller, he gives us presidents and their wives, Redcoats and frontier Caesars, heroes and scalawags -- an unforgettable portrait gallery of young America." -- Richard Norton Smith, author. "Union 1812 both fills a gaping hole in our early history and inventively and persuasively anchors the War of 1812 to the founding process, giving us portraits not only of players like Madision, Tecumseh, Jackson, and Harrison, but also of the revolutionary heroes Jefferson, Adams, and Washington, whose contributions take on new meaning in light of this 'second war of independence' and the true opening of the American West." -- William Hogeland, author. "In A.J. Langguth's classic Patriots: The Men Who Started the American Revolution, he brought to life leaders from the generation of George Washington and Thomas Jefferson in all of their complexity, with their great strengths and human frailties. In Union 1812, those men appear again, tempered now by age and new responsibilities. James Madison, the fourth president of the United States, must decide whether to go to war again only thirty years after the American Revolution. Washington, Adams, and Jefferson had all made major concessions to avoid entangling their young and divided nation in new battles with Europe. But the War Hawks, aggressive congressmen from the South and West, are demanding that Madison take action to uphold America's honor against Great Britain. In this gripping narrative of the second and final war of independence, Madison leads an unprepared nation into a struggle that will establish the United States as a major world power and stake its claim to the entire continent. As the war begins, the U.S. Navy consists of seventeen oceangoing ships; the British fleet numbers seven hundred. Nor is the country united in its will to win. Governors in New England are refusing to call out their militia, while mobs attack antiwar newspaper editors in Baltimore in a violent repetition of the Boston Massacre. Dramatic scenes range across the world, from vicious fighting on the frontier -- one British officer compares the hand-to-hand combat with the savegery of bulldogs -- to Dolley Madison's elegant receptions at the executive mansion and the wrangling among America's peace delegates in Belgium at Ghent. Before the outcome is decided, the war will have engulfed land and sea, with a disastrous U.S. defeat at Detroit and epic naval campaigns on the Great Lakes. After the Americans sack Toronto, the British retaliate by burning the White House and the Capitol and laying siege with their rockets to Fort McHenry. Finally, two and a half years of bloodshed and botched strategies culminate in the spectacular battle of New Orleans. For too long, the War of 1812 has been ignored or misunderstood. Union 1812 thrillingly illustrates why it must take its place as one of the defining moments in American history." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps.
Editore: Fantagraphics Books, 2024
ISBN 10: 1683968875 ISBN 13: 9781683968870
Da: SecondSale, Montgomery, IL, U.S.A.
Condizione: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.
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Editore: Cham, Springer., 2017
ISBN 10: 3319467166 ISBN 13: 9783319467160
Da: Universitätsbuchhandlung Herta Hold GmbH, Berlin, Germania
2nd ed. 2016. 27.9 cm x 21 cm, 0 g. XXI, pp. 1-773 Hardcover. 2nd ed., Volume 1. Versand aus Deutschland / We dispatch from Germany via Air Mail. Einband bestoßen, daher Mängelexemplar gestempelt, sonst sehr guter Zustand. Imperfect copy due to slightly bumped cover, apart from this in very good condition. Stamped. Sprache: Englisch.
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Editore: Fantagraphics Books Mär 2024, 2024
ISBN 10: 1683968875 ISBN 13: 9781683968870
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Fumetto
Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - 'Over 40 years ago, Gilbert, Jaime, and Mario Hernandez transformed the comics scene with their seminal series, Love and Rockets. In Reading Love and Rockets, Eisner-nominated author Marc Sobel offers at once an engaging entry point for readers and an invaluable resource for fans to deepen their understanding of the Hernandez brothers' literary universe. Focusing on the series' first 50 issues, Sobel explores the evolution of its characters and storylines, its idiosyncratic cultural influences, and its creators' growth as artists and writers along the way. Delving into such wide-ranging topics as magical realizing, women's wrestling, and the Southern California punk scene, this guidebook combines Sobel's own observations with analysis from a variety of scholars, critics, and fans to provided insightful perspective on a comics masterpiece'.
Editore: Mythos, 2020
ISBN 10: 8578674677 ISBN 13: 9788578674670
Da: Distribras, NESPOULS, Francia
Capa dura. Condizione: New. Usually dispatch in 4/5 days.
Editore: Springer, 2018
ISBN 10: 3319836951 ISBN 13: 9783319836959
Da: booksXpress, Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.
Soft Cover. Condizione: new.
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Editore: Springer International Publishing, 2017
ISBN 10: 331947264X ISBN 13: 9783319472645
Da: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Germania
Buch. Condizione: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - The two volumes included in Antimicrobial Drug Resistance, Second Edition is an updated, comprehensive and multidisciplinary reference covering the area of antimicrobial drug resistance in bacteria, fungi, viruses, and parasites from basic science, clinical, and epidemiological perspectives. This newly revised compendium reviews the most current research and development on drug resistance while still providing the information in the accessible format of the first edition. The first volume, Antimicrobial Drug Resistance: Mechanisms of Drug Resistance, is dedicated to the biological basis of drug resistance and effective avenues for drug development. With the emergence of more drug-resistant organisms, the approach to dealing with the drug resistance problem must include the research of different aspects of the mechanisms of bacterial resistance and the dissemination of resistance genes as well as research utilizing new genomic information. These approaches will permit the design of novel strategies to develop new antibiotics and preserve the effectiveness of those currently available. The second volume, Antimicrobial Drug Resistance: Clinical and Epidemiological Aspects, is devoted to the clinical aspects of drug resistance. Although there is evidence that restricted use of a specific antibiotic can be followed by a decrease in drug resistance to that agent, drug resistance control is not easily achieved. Thus, the infectious diseases physician requires input from the clinical microbiologist, antimicrobial stewardship personnel, and infection control specialist to make informed choices for the effective management of various strains of drug-resistant pathogens in individual patients. This 2-volume set is an important reference for students in microbiology, infectious diseases physicians, medical students, basic scientists, drug development researchers, microbiologists, epidemiologists, and public health practitioners.
Editore: Springer, 2018
ISBN 10: 3319835718 ISBN 13: 9783319835716
Da: GF Books, Inc., Hawthorne, CA, U.S.A.
Condizione: Very Good. Book is in Used-VeryGood condition. Pages and cover are clean and intact. Used items may not include supplementary materials such as CDs or access codes. May show signs of minor shelf wear and contain very limited notes and highlighting. 3.69.
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